The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-22


Have you built bin under cover to
store your poultry droppings till next
spring. II not, do so mt once; the
droppings from fowl will buy one
third of what she eats in twelve months.
The early rose potato is the result of
the experiments of DIR. Goodrich. of
New York, who obtained from South
America wild plant from which he
raised the garnet Chill, and from this
was produced the seed ball from which
grew the early rose.
Undertaking was known to the
Greeks and Romans two thousand years
ago. Virgil and Cato wrote of open
bitches. and Columella, contemporary
with Christ, tells how TO construct COW
cred bitches to convey water from low
lying spots.
From Mr. Samuel l.. Boardman'
transactions of the State Pathological
Society. I'VE learn that the plan of plant
ing seed trees in the orchard, to be
grated IN the top, rs is quite customary
in England, is becoming the approved
practice in Maine.
Hon. Edward Burnett, of Massachu-
sets, says if he could only have one of
the two butter cows or butter feed. he
would take the feed. He would rather
have the poorest cows on the right sort
of feed for butter cows than the best
butter COWS with poor feed.
Bees. in their search for honey. visit
only one kind of flower on the same
trip This is not accidental, but it is O
wise provision for preventing hybridi-
cation of different varieties from pollen
which bees always distribute in theil
journey from flower to flower.
There more wool grown on each
sheep than formerly, the average hav-
ing doubled in twenty-five years. In
1880 the product was two and one-hali
pounds per sheep, while in 1885 it had
risen to five pounds. This is due tC
the grading up of the common flock.
and improving them with the use of
merno rams
A French cultivator gained gold
medal ut an exhibition in France on "A
superb lot of potatoes which he raised
in the following manner: When the
Young stems were four inches 1t height
all but two of the central ones were cut
away, and those only allowed to grow.
The tubers grow much larger in conse-
quence.
The Lincoln are the largest breed of
sheep in the world, having, in some
instances. attained dressed weight OF
nearly 400 pounds. They yield beau
tlful fleece of lustrous wool about ten
inches in length, and weighing from
eight to fifteen pounds. They are not
popular in this country because they
require too much care to suit the ordi-
nary farmer.
Bloat in calves is really an acute at
tack OF Indigestion, which often proves
fatal almost Immediately. Taken in
time il may be relieved by a teaspoon
full each of baking soda and ground GIN
ger dissolved in a quarter pint of boil
ing water and poured down the calf's
throat. To do this Il long necked bottle
may be used. Rub the stomach briskly
and make the calf move about, If pos
sible. to get rid of the wind.
Prof. Cook does not think coal or
wood ashes of service in protecting APP
pie trees against the borer. He is best
pleased with the old remedy of rubbing
the trunks and main branches with soft
soap about three weeks after the trees
blossom. A suds made of two parts OF
soft soap. one part of crude cabolic acid
and eight parts of water. applied with
cloth. is even better than the soap
alone The application also kills the
apple tree bark lice.
+ In discussing the dairy business re-
cent VIZ ter SAYS that the factory system
of butter-making insures greater uni
form ty and Il generally better product
than is produced by butter made in
private dairies But with cheese this
has not always been the fact. There
are greater temptations to lower the
quality of cheese than of butter, as in
most places in this country there is
much too little difference between the
price of poor cheese and of good.
Wool growing presents a feasible